Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

Fu Jinzhan stood up and looked into the distance with a smile. She stretched her upper body slightly, raised her head and took a deep breath, "Hmm..." She sighed softly, lazily and intoxicated.

Guo Shao stared blankly at her beautiful posture, then turned his head to follow her gaze. I saw the blue sky, the vast and colorful plains, the brownish-yellow soil exposed on the large wheat fields after harvest, and a little white smoke everywhere in the fields.

"What are those smokes burning?" Fu Jinzhan asked enthusiastically.

Guo Shao took a closer look and said, "The fertility of the land is very important. After the crops are harvested, the farmers will burn the straw in the field on the spot as fertilizer."

After saying that, he took out half a piece of wheat cake from the horse's back, and ate it with water. Fu Jinzhan glanced at him: "Soldiers usually eat this? Give me a taste too." After hearing this, Guo Shao broke off a piece and gave it to her.

Jinzhan's bright and clean vermilion lips kissed, lightly biting a small piece of the jade white porcelain, and frowning slightly. Guo Shao said with a smile: "Try to chew more, it will become sweeter."

She chewed for a while, then said with a smile: "It's really sweet! It's actually not bad..."

Guo Shaodao: "Of course, this kind of cake is not as good as the finely prepared staple food. It is very thick at first taste; but as long as you taste it carefully, you can still taste the sweetness and its original grain fragrance."

"It seems to make sense." Jinzhan pursed his lips and smiled. After a while, she murmured softly: "I have never been so comfortable, relaxed and happy like today... Brother Shao was bestowed on me by God. On that stormy morning, you were so unremarkable lying on the side of the street trembling, so it turned out that God was rewarding me in the most inconspicuous way."

Guo Shao listened thoughtfully, his ear tilted, as if he was savoring Fu Jinzhan's words and feeling what she could feel.

Fu Jinzhan turned to look at Guo Shao again: "What I said in Jinxiang Palace yesterday, do you know what I mean?"

Guo Shao snorted, he seemed a bit dull, he didn't talk much, but he was very attentive in his daily life. Fu Jinzhan said: "I want you to be with me all the time."

Guo Shao thought about it, and gradually understood what Fu Jinzhan meant. Yesterday she said that "when I am about to leave" (by leaving this world), she wanted Guo Shao to be buried, probably expressing a kind of attachment... a bit extreme, but Guo Shao didn't feel scared, but looked at her face with emotion. His eyes couldn't help looking at Fu Jinzhan's delicious-looking lips.

Unexpectedly, at this time, there was a rapid sound of horseshoes in the distance.

The trembling heartstrings just now were interrupted, Guo Shao turned his head to look, and saw that Lu Chengyong and the other two finally caught up.

Fu Jinzhan also looked back, squinted his eyes and danced the straight post road on the plain, and said, "I still want to run between the sky and the earth, as freely as a bird!"

After hearing this, Guo Shao carried her directly onto the horse's back. This time he didn't run so fast, but galloped along with two guards. Fu Jinzhan hugged him tightly from behind, the soft touch from his back made people's heart throbbing, and her warm|hot face was very comfortable in the vest.

"That river is Caishui." Guo Shaoyao pointed ahead, and several hills in the distance where the river extended came into view. "Drive!" He yelled, speeding up and running towards the mountain.

A group of people climbed up a hill, and Fu Jinzhan suddenly let out a voice of "ah" in surprise. On the hillside of the three riders reining in their horses, there was a noise of "kuangkuangkuang..." in the wind, and other noises suddenly became noisy.

Looking as far as the eye could see, there was a large stretch of flat and vertical houses in front of him, and the noise came from that complex of buildings. Behind these few hills, beside the Caishui River, it seems that a small city has been built out of the ground, with at least dozens of rough and simple buildings. A wide canal was dug out of the Caishui River and led into a valley not far away. It was divided into more than a dozen tributaries on the side of the mountain. The river flowed straight down the valley like man-made waterfalls. There were also many houses in the valley.

Below the waterfall, you can see the huge water wheel turning slowly.

This is not a beautiful natural scenery, but it has a special style, especially the water wheel looks very magnificent like a Ferris wheel in a playground. No wonder Fu Jinzhan gasped in amazement when he first saw it.

"Is this an armor workshop?" Fu Jinzhan asked.

Guo Shao said with a smile: "I asked the queen mother to allocate a large sum of money directly from the internal treasury to make the armor. The money has been paid out, and where it was spent, you can see here."

Fu Jinzhan looked sideways slightly, and saw that there were guards immediately behind, so he didn't say a word. The guards still think she is Guo Shao's wife Fu Ermei.

"The waterwheel is the most beautiful." Fu Jinzhan said softly, very similar to what Fu Ermei said. Fu Ermei will pay the most attention to such simple and intuitive things.

Guo Shaodao: "The waterwheel is something that Li Fang was ordered by the Jiafang Administration to find someone. I only saw his results after I came back from Shu Kingdom. This guy is a bit greedy for money, but I was so scared that he probably didn't have much greed. The money was spent on ideas; this time the conquest of Shu has gained a lot, I have to ask the Queen Mother to reward him...Let's go down and have a look, drive!"

The closer to the valley, the louder the sound.

The river water pouring down from above splashed loudly on the huge waterwheel wheels. The wheels were not very delicate, and there was a lot of friction when they turned, and there was a "grumbling" sound between the conveyor belts;

The entire forging hammer assembly has basically remained the same, except that the power device has changed from power storage to hydraulic power. The ancients used water wheels in many places, including ships, but it was easy to use them here... Guo Shao did not do this step. He was still fighting in the Shu Kingdom. This kind of workshop is too noisy, and it would indeed disturb the people for a long time in the city, but now it has moved to the suburbs.

Hydraulic Forging Hammer! It just came out like this. Guo Shao didn't know the structure of the hydraulic forging hammer developed in the history of mankind, but it was definitely not what he saw now. In fact, the device he made was very strange and nondescript, but it could forge a whole piece of metal mold... as long as it could be used. Anyway, he didn't know what a hydraulic forging hammer should look like.

"The waterwheel drives the runner. The waterwheel is big and slow, but the runner inside is small and fast." Guo Shao said, pointing.

Fu Jinzhan watched with wide eyes with great interest. In this dirty and dusty workshop, she looked like a pearl dropped into the ashes, which was a strange sight.

"Did you see the iron chain hanging on the outside of the wheel?" Guo Shao pointed again, "When turning, the iron chain will be pulled because the direction varies from far to near."

Circular motion is converted into linear motion, and the conversion efficiency seems to be a bit low, there is no way out.

At this moment, two civil servants came in, Li Fang, the order of the Jiafang Department, was still panting, almost running. He immediately clasped his fists and said, "See you at Guo Du for inspection, Madam Guo."

The other official in charge of the ceremony is Zan Jurun, envoy of the Hakka Province. What is this guy doing here? Guo Shao ignored the relationship between Jiajiafang and Hakka envoys for a while.

"Li Shuling, you did a good job." Guo Shao patted him on the shoulder. Fu Jinzhan ignored them, she is now the second younger sister of Fu, and she can't say that there is a reward for mourning the family.

Li Fang hurriedly said: "What's in your job, what's in your job... I'm very happy to be able to get Guo Du to inspect and drive me away."

Guo Shaodao: "Continue to work hard, I can't treat you badly."

Fu Jinzhan asked softly, "Did Li Fang make these things?"

Li Fang hurriedly said: "Ma'am, they are all made according to the arrangement of Guo Du's inspection. I am looking for someone."

Fu Jinzhan couldn't help looking up at Guo Shao.

Guo Shaodao: "The hydraulic transmission was made by Li Fang."

"It's not me, it's shopkeeper Lu, he's the shipbuilder...the person I'm looking for." Li Fang said. After hearing this, Guo Shao laughed and said, "It's also a skill to find someone who can be used."

Li Fang laughed and said: "Guo has been inspected and praised."

At this time, Guo Shaocai turned his head to look at Zan Jurun who was left hanging aside, and asked, "Mr. Zan is here to inspect the Jiafang Office?"

Zan Jurun made a bow and said: "A while ago when I attacked Shu, I served as the supervisor of the North Route Army. I found that the new armor is very good in defense. The previous ring lock armor is not very strong against bows and arrows. This kind of full armor is extremely strong against sharp weapons. So I came to have a look at the workshop."

Guo Shao nodded without making any fuss. This Zan Jurun has always been an official of the Zhou Dynasty, and he is a good official, so there is nothing wrong with it.

At this time, Zan Jurun said: "The lower official thinks that it can be changed. For example, the helmet and the soldiers of the North Route Army say that it is not breathable, and the whole iron plate can't be worn when the weather is hot. Come here and let someone try another look. General Guo will be interested."

"It's really airtight, and I don't feel comfortable wearing it." Guo Shao went to see it with him.

I saw that there were various armors in another room used as a warehouse, and there was a janitor at the door, who probably managed the things that came in and out. A pair of armor hung on a wooden frame. The chest and arms remained unchanged, and the helmet and shoulder armor were slightly changed. The helmet is connected by two pieces of armor with rivets, the upper iron plate presses the lower one, and the middle is breathable, but the joint is two layers, so it is not easy for weapons to be inserted in;

Zan Jurun said: "Looking at the formation, I think the armor looks better, the plastic surgery is more powerful, and the morale of the soldiers is also higher. And this shoulder armor, it is easier to move around."

Guo Shao took a closer look, and couldn't help but look back at Zan Jurun. The chain armor on the active parts is thickened and connected to the plate armor. In this way, soldiers can wear it directly without using two inner and outer layers, which reduces the weight. Guo Shao could see that the most troublesome part of this pair of armor was not the main parts of the plate armor, but the chain armor of the joints, such as the skirt armor; of course, the plate armor would consume more iron.

Sure enough, Li Fang said: "The lock armor is labor-intensive and expensive. The dozens of workshops above are all made of lock armor, and only a dozen sledgehammer workshops are enough below. Fortunately, the internal treasury allocates money generously. If you have money, you can't find people."

Guo Shaodao: "Li Shuling is very good at finding people."

Li Fang said: "There are not many great master craftsmen, and the lower officials pay for the great craftsmen to lead apprentices...the queen mother's money."

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